The worrying flaws in Lammy’s plan to cut jury trials
David Lammy clearly spotted that he had set the cat among the pigeons when his plans to cut back on…
There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice
David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder,…
Now Britain must quit the ECHR
Shabana Mahmood is a bright minister among a cabinet of duds, dealt a difficult hand and playing it rather well.…
More asylum hotel protests are inevitable
The Labour party will, one suspects, curse the name of Epping for some time. The uncomfortable fact is that it…
Who cares if the Huntingdon train hero is an immigrant?
When a maniac ran amok on a train near Huntingdon on Saturday, train steward Samir Zitouni put his life on…
The rise of anti-democratic human rights
Seventy-five years ago today the European Convention on Human Rights was signed in Rome by the 12 states, including Britain,…
Human rights scepticism is now mainstream
When Nigel Farage introduced a bill in the House of Commons requiring the UK to leave the ECHR (European Convention…
Non-crime hate incidents aren’t dead yet
The Met has announced that it will stop investigating non-crime hate incidents, or NCHIs. The pressure on other forces to…
Human rights busybodies should keep out of the trans toilet row
The problems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the bureaucracy behind it aren’t limited to the spanners…
Badenoch’s ECHR pledge could be the start of a Tory revival
Kemi Badenoch’s announcement that the Conservatives are now irrevocably committed to pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights…
Labour’s leave to remain overhaul is thin gruel
Labour is again running scared on migration. At the party’s conference yesterday, Shabana Mahmood made a clear pitch to middle Britain on the subject. ‘You may not…
Deploying the military won’t stop illegal migration
There was a grain or two of truth in what Donald Trump said last week about migration. A polity is…
Labour is in a migration trap of its own making
The failure to deport any illegal migrants at all on the first designated flight to France yesterday under the agreement…
Lord Hermer is dangerously wrong about the ECHR
How things change. Five years ago few electors cared about the UK’s membership of the ECHR. Today that same convention,…
The English countryside isn’t ‘racist’
Three researchers from Leicester University’s Centre for Hate Studies produced a curious report on Monday about the English countryside. Their…
The Epping hotel ruling is a victory – and a defeat – for Labour
It wasn’t surprising that the Home Office chose to back an urgent appeal in the Epping hotel case. Not only…
The real significance of Farage’s deportation plan
If Nigel Farage wanted headline treatment for his immigration speech at Oxford Airport this morning, he certainly got it. So…
Starmer is dodging the real asylum battle
The government is badly rattled on immigration. It knows that its perceived inability either to curb rampant asylum abuses or…
The Epping tipping point
Yesterday’s injunction granted to Epping Forest council giving the government three weeks to stop using the Bell Hotel for asylum…
The US is right to warn Britain about its free speech record
Every year the US State Department is required to produce a report on the human rights situation in every country…
Labour is going to have to leave the ECHR
The Home Secretary’s extension of the list of countries covered by the ‘deport now, appeal later’ scheme for foreign criminals,…
Starmer will regret his ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal
Today the much-vaunted ‘one in, one out’ agreement over returning small boat migrants to France officially comes into effect. Keir…
Starmer must not kotow to the ICJ on climate change
Last week, 15 judges from the International Court of Justice at the Vredespaleis in the Hague, at the request of…
Kemi has fallen into the Islamophobia trap
Kemi Badenoch this weekend waded into the Islamophobia debate. In a public letter to Keir Starmer she urged the government…
What Suella Braverman’s plan for quitting the ECHR gets right
This morning’s paper on leaving the ECHR from Suella Braverman and the Prosperity Institute doesn’t say much that hasn’t been…
